Anyone interested in 83 Pace Arrow Tear down and Rebuild?

Turns out the temps dropped somewhat and the epoxy was a little stiff, so it needed to be warmed up just a little bit.

I added my second coat of fiberglass cloth covered with epoxy over the seam between the 2 pieces of plywood for the left side skirt.

I also pulled out the left side skirt, because I need to add another piece to make it long enough. Adding this piece will lengthen it to about 20 feet long.

I used some fiberglass cloth, and epoxy, and applied the first coat today at the last joint. Typically, I'll use about 3 of these at the joint to hold things together.

Fortunately, epoxy will cure in a few hours and more than one coat can be applied in a day.

I have been wanting to finish off the roof at the back since last fall, and it just didn't happen.

I pulled out one of my trusses that I used to work on the roof and screwed it to the 2 saw horses so I can get up there and finish up the back area.

Now, if the weather co-operates I can get that buttoned up.

Well, it was a pretty good re-productive week.

Re-productive?

Does that mean you are making babies?

No.

Here's my twisted version.

When getting a good amount of work done, we call it a productive time, or maybe a productive week.

When some of the work has to be done over, in order to get it right, we call it ... yeah, re-productive.

Yeah, I know it's twisted and incorrect usage of the English language.

On the bright side, I did turn some of the mountains back into mole hills this week.

That means intermission is over. Yay!

I also sprayed some blue on a piece of plywood. There are probably about 5 or 6 coats on this... (the plywood was cold... pun intended).

Anyhow, after it cured several days, I wanted to see how it stuck to the plywood, and I must say, it was stuck pretty well. It took a lot of effort to pull it off.

Here is step one....







As you can see in the second pic, it stretched quite a bit and not a huge amount had been pulled away from the plywood at this point.

Yeah, it was stuck very well.







Yeah, somewhere along the line, I think I see some of this in my future, although not necessarily blue! Wahoo!

Here are a couple of pics of black Plasti Dip spayed on rusty steel. The black section has been sanded to remove most of the rust and make a smooth surface.

This is just how it comes out of the can, without much shine.







This section was sanded the same way, then sprayed at the same time, but the "Glossifier" was added over top of the black, which makes it a little more shiny.

Ever have one of those weeks where every mole hill turned into a mountain? Yeah, me neither....... Lol....

First off, just like Por 15, I have no affiliation with this outfit, make no money from them, and so on.

I stumbled onto this on YouTube, (where else)?

I did not know this was "A Thing". It is indeed "A Thing", though. What, you ask?

Well, people have been using this paint, which is kind of a rubber-ized paint, and paint their cars to change the color, and later will peel the paint off, and repaint with a different color. They are known as "Dip Heads". Yes, you read that right. Dip Heads. Lol.

This stuff seems to stick very well to a variety of different substrates, including ones that are rusted, which is how I stumbled on to it in the first place.

As such, I pulled out a piece of rusty steel and proceeded to "test it out". (No shock there)!

That is how I ended up "bloody-ing up the floor, with the red paint.

Here are a FEW of their colors, that I am playing around with.







Evidently, as long as the rusty surface is dry, and free of loose material, this will stick.

It is not meant as a permanent repair, as is Por 15, but it evidently will last several years, in order to buy some time, until you can get to work on your project.

No, I am not looking to extending my project for a few years. This is actually meant for another vehicle of mine, not the motor home, so don't panic.

Thanks for the words of encouragement. I did NOT cut off any thing. Not even a flesh wound. Sure looks like it though.

This amounted to another round of user error. Not with tools and hurting myself, but I noticed after using one of these ......







... that by NOT pressing FULLY on top of the spray trigger, that red paint was dripping all over the floor, while I was trying to spray paint something.

I took a look at my index finger, now covered in paint, saw the floor, and my first thought was, "that does not look good". To me, it looked like I had cut off something I was born with, and blood was spurting everywhere!

Fortunately, that was not the case. That also brings me to what was going on when this occurred.

Painting, with Plasti Dip.